Sandy

so, good job, Ash, getting that guy to surrender.

what about utah? maybe the mormons will scare all the good copy editors away and they'll be willing to give ME a job. it's so disheartening being blown off by these places. i almost hate to put myself through it again.

teaching, actually, is not all that bad. it would be better if i had any time to prepare. but when i am prepared, i get a real rush after the class is finished and people have participated.

But counting contradictions won't make me feel any better today..

rick - got a call from some paper north of NYC for a reference.
i said you sucked, of course.

if i died, would they miss me before the wrong crossword ran?

help me. how do i work with stuff like this?:

"It was a challenge last night to raise funds for the Challenger School’s playground project."

there can be little more surreal in this world than waking up to the sound of Johnny Cash singing Nine Inch Nails.

there's an original fucking idea for a features story: how women (specifically) can lose weight.

as a matter of fact... please, fire me over the jumble. this is hell.

then again, maybe not. it might be so absurd i could live with it.

dude, it would so suck to be fired over the jumble.

It's such a good feeling knowing I'm doing my best to steer talented people away from the OA. Of course, it really IS for their own good.
Sigh.. and I'm so not a bitter person. :)

This week was much better. Partly because a couple other people have told me that one of the people on my desk is the "hardest person in the building to work with," and is accustomed to "spending 70 percent of his time surfing the internet." At least i know it's not just the way I do things that's causing problems. the other person, apparently, did feel passed over as far as my position. It WAS a really shitty way for my boss to do things. But that person has lightened up somewhat this week.

Rick, apparently you haven't been reading what poison kitchen has to say about Florida Today. I'd steer clear of Gannett, myself.

apparently the fact that i draw my dummies in pen, which involves scribbling, is "condescending."

Gee, maybe if I were as lovely and talented as Laura Black, MY partner would only have turned to sucking off other men in my children's bedroom, instead of taking drugs. *sigh*
Maybe if I took a little more interest in NASCAR...

John Kerr is SUCH a hottie...

i've just had the epiphany that this whole department is really just another arm for the ad dept. DUH!
but they get paid a good 10 grand more

and another thing: take a shower before you drag your sorry ass into the office at 11:30.

i just spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out what day of the week it is. i was sure it was wednesday until i looked at the date on the computer, and then my calendar. alien abduction??

i still like my boss, but i think i figured out why other people dont - it's like working for polly. (more later)

they're ready to explode about the placement of rules - you know, LINES, for chistsake.

one of jimi hendrix's lesser known tunes... "Passive Agression" (to the tune of "Manic Depression," of course...)